Clair MacDougall

Clair MacDougall is an independent journalist and writer, currently based in Monrovia, Liberia. Her recent work has focused on Liberia’s post-war construction and imperfect attempts to reconcile with its brutal past and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Clair won the 2015 Kurt Schork Memorial Fund Award for her reporting on the Ebola outbreak and also contributed to the New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the epidemic.
She has written about mercenaries, former warlords and female child soldiers, justice for war crimes, government corruption, election violence, drug abuse and women’s rights issues and reported from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, India the United States and rural Australia. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Newsweek, Time, Stern, Al Jazeera America and Foreign Policy, among others. She holds an honors degree in political theory and a masters from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.